BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1933; the edges are decorated in a late fifteenth-century Cretan style with circles linked by an interlace pattern in ink and red wash (3 on the fore-edge, and 2 each on the top and tail edges).

Provenance

Colophon giving the date of the completion of the copying as 26 December, 1489, f. 200.Latin and Greek marginal titles and variants (ff. 1-58) in a last quarter of the 15th century hand, possibly the same as that responsible for the marginal notes in Burney 110.? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.